narrator: sako arrives at ginza a little before 9:00 a.m.ike most residents of tokyo, he expects the commuting network to deliver him on schedule each morning. two-hours is a long commute, even for tokyo. but the shorter 90-minute option is simply shared by too many residents of the metropolitan area. taylor: commute times in tokyo are exceptionally long, it seems, but if you think about, for example, commute times in southern california where you have people in their cars driving on three, four, five different freeways going 60, 80, 100 miles to their work destination and sitting in traffic sometimes for an hour or two, then you realize it's not actually that different. narrator: some people are attempting to rethink the concept of the ever-lengthening commute. hoping to ease the overcrowding in the capital area, small edge cities are under construction in several places. the goal is to createnew s where people will live and work. in makuhari new town, in chiba, construction of w housing has beenoing on for years. eventually,900 units will